Possibly too much information (TMI) up ahead. You have been warned. Marc used to be a little night owl (like us). Now we're in the process of shifting his schedule a few hours so he goes to bed around midnight (we want this to be earlier) and wakes up at a decent hour (8ish). Yesterday morning Manny woke him up and took him to feed him some baby food and juice. Meanwhile, since he had Marc and my breasts were full (more like engorged), I pumped... something I hadn't done in a while. To my surprise and delight, I ended up getting 5.25 oz. total. We did the same thing today and I ended up with 7 oz. (although today I slept a little more so there was more time for milk to be produced). Yay, milk! This expressed breast milk will be used in his oatmeal/corn baby cereal (which he likes a LOT more than formula). Manny tasted the formula yesterday and gagged. Lately when we've been giving Marc juice we do it via a bottle (fast flow nipple) because it's a little (but not much more) time efficient and definitely less messy than spoon feeding. He still isn't very good at drinking out of them that well though... just a couple sucks and then he'll turn his head away. I hope that soon he'll be able to hold and drink from a sippy cup on his own since he's not good with bottles. Did I mention already that his two front teeth are coming in? One if not both have broken through his gums. What else... Yesterday we took my mom to physical therapy near the Fox Chapel/Waterworks/Aspinwall area. Manny dropped Marc and me off at the Waterworks outdoor mall and he went for a quick ride. Afterwards we all had lunch at Panera. We took Mom home and by that time, Dad was home from work so we stayed a while. A little later on I also went to Oakland to meet up with Marissa and Melinda while Manny watched Marc. After getting off the bus, I'm almost positive I saw someone I knew, but by that time they were too far ahead of me. It felt pretty weird being in Oakland... like I was disconnected. Marissa wasn't in Oakland when I got there so I called another friend to see if she was available since I hadn't seen her since Marc was born......... no such luck. After M got back, we went over to Harold's place for a little bit to visit, but mostly watched him and his friend play video games............................ (To his credit, they specifically met up to play otherwise I'm sure we all would've talked more.) Anyhoo, we left after about 20-30 minutes and then went downtown to the PPG plaza to see a robot installation thing (they took a bunch of goofy pictures haha) and to the Wood Street Galleries and SPACE gallery (both are free all the time). Really neat stuff, especially at SPACE. I asked the guy working who I should talk to if I want some of my work to be exhibited and he gave me an e-mail. I'm hoping that I'm not just talk... it'd be so awesome to have my art there.. to be displayed and sold (a lot of the pieces were also for sale). At the moment Manny is out for a quick ride. We're going to church after he gets back, then Costco, then I'm going to an estate sale. This afternoon we're eating linner at my aunt's with my parents and Estelle. :) | 
